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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.
I often ask entrepreneurs I’m meeting for the first time to imagine that our meeting just ended and it was a great success from their point of view. Then I ask, “What made this such a great meeting for you?” […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
I have seen several recent startup pitches covering different markets, having different technologies, and built with teams of differing calibers, all of which shared one unfortunate trait: The founders’ funding plans looked a lot like a Bridge to Nowhere. […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Will Elon Musk’s navigation from near-bankruptcy to becoming the first new public American car company started in nearly a hundred years end with Model 3?
Recap
In a previous post, I introduced the “Clever-Foolish 2×2” behind […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.
When I ask friends with pilot’s licenses what the hardest thing was about learning to fly, they always say, “learning how to get out of a midair stall.” The hard thing about it, they tell me, is how counterintuitive the […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on TechCrunch.
If you’ve ever run a 10K road race, you know that race organizers spend a lot of effort to have volunteers at every milepost telling runners what their time is. If you’re like me, you’ve probably sped up at each […]
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This XSeed article was written by Theresa Johnston and originally appeared on the Stanford Graduate School of Business website.
Say you’re an entrepreneur and your product is getting little traction. You could go back to the drawing board and re-engineer it. It might make more sense, though, to rethink your market, says venture capitalist Alan Chiu […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on Forbes.
If the Clever-Foolish 2×2 is Silicon Valley’s strategic playbook, here is how Mark Zuckerberg has employed it in the past, and will employ it long into the future.
Recap
In a previous post, I introduced the […]
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One of our goals at XSeed is to invest in entrepreneurs who pursue risky, paradigm changing ideas to solve big problems that seem intractable using established approaches. Rapid, cost-effective diagnosis and data-guided treatment of antibiotic resistant diseases is one such problem – causing about 25,000 deaths and over 2 million illnesses a year in the U.S. alone, with new, ever more resistant bacterial strains evolving […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Neither Incrementalism Nor An Infinite Monkey
There’s something special about breakout Silicon Valley-style innovation. Not the ecosystem that makes it possible for hundreds — if not thousands — of efforts to launch, but the handful that win. And keep […]
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This article originally appeared August 7, 2015 on the Stanford Graduate School of Business website, featuring XSeed Partner Robert Siegel.
As a partner at XSeed Capital, an early-stage investment firm in Silicon Valley, Robert Siegel knows how quickly poor management of human resources can sink a fledging business.
“The single largest […]
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